There are many arguments against passing another extension. All of them rest in the dollars and cents side of things - how the bill will be paid for, how it will affect the economy, how likely job growth is because of the bill, etc. Now, there's arguments that illegal aliens could be getting benefits, too!
Illegal immigration is a very hot topic in politics as well, with controversial state immigration laws popping up all over. What started in Arizona has spread to other states, including Florida.
States are supposed to have software that helps them validate claims for unemployment benefits. In Colorado, a controversial workorder was issued, shutting the software off. This allowed illegal aliens to slip through the cracks and receive unemployment checks.
With irresponsible spending rampant in the government, what hope do the Tier 5 99er supporters have of ensuring that benefits extensions are passed, when it's difficult at best to trust the state and federal governments to ensure that only qualified expenditures are paid?
Reference: National Policy Institute
When the 99ers start committing crimes to survive,; then and only then with congress and the general public give a rats ass. After all several articles have quoted CEO/CFO's states the unemployed are "Damaged Goods and Defective". So if crimes increase the unemployed can NOT be held responsible Mr/Mrs CEO/ CFO.
ReplyDeleteWe are people and we are NOT !! Damaged and Defective !! We just want a Career/Job
There was a recently released video of a woman going off at a McDonalds over them not selling her chicken nuggets because it was still breakfast time. She was later reported to have been drunk at the time. The thing is you CANNOT get drunk in the morning like that if you have a job. Because if you show up to work that drunk, they will smell it on you and you'll get fired. She is obviously unemployed and possibly a 99er. She's from Ohio where the unemployment rate is 10%+. What do you all think?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/mcnugget-fight-mcdonalds_n_677415.html
There is a cost if there is an extension for the 99er's and a greater cost if there isn't. All the banks around the nation that caused the recession, while they still paid their dividends, bonuses and high salaries, should be made to pay for the unemployment benefits. You cannot tell me that they didn't know the effect of their shenanigans when they gave loans to anyone that asked. They sold off their liability as soon as they received it. They had a cash cow and knew it.
ReplyDeleteJust pass the bill and give those people a little relief. It is not their fault it is due to NAFTA, economy, past administrations, etc.,
ReplyDeleteDave Bradley
ReplyDeleteIf you caught the whole story This was at 2'30am on the morning of New Year Day
She was probably out partying on new year eve and was on her way home
what makes you think she was unemployed????
I doubt if the woman at mcdonalds is a 99er,I am a 99er and cant afford a bottle of booze. I am not kidding my wife works and we can't break even.I went back to school for dialysis tech had interview yesterday will know if i got it friday.I do not expect another extension and I've done all I can to get work.If I don't then the repo man will have to come. Received last unemployment check March 27.
ReplyDeletePLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pass the bill! I just want a good night sleep.
ReplyDeleteEnough is enough! Legal U.S citizens unite! Help take the steps to save our country take our jobs back and stop this illegal immigrant invasion. Support our cause before illegal immigrant criminals have more rights than us. This is our last stand! If other online articles report unemployment is around 20% and there are 310 million in the U.S census reports. Then there is as many as 62 million people in the U.S that are unemployed & are able to work fulltime. Do we have to reach 150 million unemployed before we take action? Also we must take steps to lower local city and state councilmen salaries too they are all robbing & hurting the people they serve. So please read and sign this online petition. "Petition to Reduce the Wages of Congress Men and Women from $174,000 per year to $50,000 per year at “change.org’. " Link is below!
ReplyDeletehttp://uspoverty.change.org/petitions/view/petition_to_reduce_the_wages_of_congress_men_and_women_from_174000_per_year_to_50000_per_year
Pass it on!
So many of us are struggling. I have worked all of my life my last job for 18 years until they relocated out of state. We are living on my cashed out 401k. I have a college degree and now have resorted to appling at temp agencies and they too do not have jobs. Down and out in California, what is the country becoming?
ReplyDeleteWhere do they find the money? Why don't they look at the close to $2 Billion available because they overestimated the cost of the new Census? The Census will be worthless anyway, because close to 3 million Americans will no longer live where they did when the census was taken.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the Senate knows about this money, and already have a plan to burn it on I.O.U. legislation for the benefit of their pals and banks.
Also: A contingency appropriation was set aside for any cost overruns that may have occurred with the Census. Think we'll ever hear the amount of this contingent reserve, or what happened to it? NOT LIKELY!
Tell your childred and grand children this simple rule: IF YOU WANT TO LIVE LIKE A REPUBLICAN, VOTE DEMOCRAT!
I have worked since I was 16yrs. old I'm 40yrs. old now, I have 3 kids and have never been on welfare and after exhausting my unemployment benefits I was told to go get on welfare..WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO...HELP US IN LAS VEGAS
ReplyDeleteThe government needs to start looking at us like PEOPLE instead of numbers!!! We have families to support and can not wait around until they come back from vacation and then argue for months whether or not to extend UI benefits!!!!
ReplyDeleteJust like the rest, I have worked 35 years for what...to lose it all and be told I'm lazy!! I love living off 60% of my salary while sitting around watching my world colapse around me!!! House is gone...401K lost...car repo'd...no money for rent, utilities or food!!! Yes this is the life I worked to obtain for all those years!!! At least let us keep our dignity!!!
Why is it SO hard to help the people of this country?! We are not looking for a hand out just what we have paid into for decades!!!
This bill should have been passed BEFORE they went on yet another vacation.
Look, I've told everyone before, if you find a job pending on your state, you're really lucky. I live in CT so their really ain't that much opportunities here in the Northeast. Plus, if you find a job, it's at low pay in a state that taxes you to death! And as far as the unemployment bill for 99ers go, they are using that for the upcoming elections. Really think about. They want this to be national news so that the whole wide media talks about who's right and who's wrong about unemployment extensions when really the right thing is a no brainer. You have to support the unemployed who didn't create the mess in the first place! And it's becoming quite clear to me now. I'm starting to think that could it be possible that our own elected officials hate the American people? Could that be possible? I think so. I've been saying it for a while. They are trying to destroy this country!! OPEN UP YOUR FUCKIN EYES!!!
ReplyDeleteThe fact that someone can say the 99ers will be forced into crime is a crock! Only an immoral and pathetic person would sit and say that they will go to a life of crime if something isn't passed. I work in UI and deal with those people who are trying their best to find employment, and I have complete faith that the majority would not even consider crime as a way of life. Shame on those who would!
ReplyDelete1)Why should unemployed American citizens be punished because some companies violated the law by hiring illegal aliens? The companies that violated the law should be fined and their executives held criminally liable!
ReplyDelete2) If a state employee issues a “controversial work order”, that employee should be held legally and criminally liable! You don’t punish honest citizens because of corrupt or incompetent government officials.
3) The 99’rs are people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Meanwhile, there are top ranking company officials still collecting paychecks; while their former employees have nothing. This is mainly due to the BAILOUTS that have been provided by the TAXPAYERS money. No politician complained about “balancing the budget” when the money was used to help their rich friends.
4) Take a look at the abusive use of the bailout money. BONUSES were paid to executives who were responsible for running their companies into the ground. Money was spent on company perks like “weekend” vacations. It was all “business as usual” and paid for by American taxpaying citizens. After all of the corruption that occurred with the “bailout money”, these politicians shouldn’t dare to deny benefits because “Illegal aliens might get some of the funds”. It’s the RESPOSIBILITY of our state and federal officials to see to it that these monies are distributed properly. It’s about time that they got off their lazy a$$e$ and EARNED their paychecks.
Please explain to me why we can put all this money out for war (more deficit) we can go to all these other country's rescue (more deficit) but we can't help our own? There is something very wrong with this picture.
ReplyDeleteThis bill will never get passed as we are just pawns in the political Repub vs Dems game. They are going to use this biill as a way to further delay the game they are playing. If they were that concerned about helping us this would have been passed long time ago. The senate would have delayed their vacations to get it done too. But no. this was their plan all along. By us losing everything it still makes them more money for themselves and their friends as they will just get bailed out again. we are not just lazy bums who know nothing we are educated and know what is going on. do you not think that it is funny that the news never even mentions us or any of our problems they just mention all the garbage that is put out by big business and the rich. The world knows nothing about our plight so we have no voice. we are too broke to even buy food so they know we can't go and protest somewhere and most are losing their means to even look for jobs. it is sad our world is coming to this. i have nothing now. no savings, no 401k left and i am 1 step from losing my utilities and tv and cell and even my house. but government doesn't care. where is Obama in all this? do we even hear from him? no we don't. all we hear about is his family vacation and his daughter at camp. life goes on for the rich while we are left to worry and suffer and lose it all. 20 more weeks of unemployment isn't even going to get us out of this situation. it is too late already for most of us to even be able to stay in our homes and not lose it all. so this bill is a joke. it may help those who are already receinving help still but for the 99ers it is really too late to help us now so i have no faith that it will work out. and if it does it will be to just buy food while we live in the streets. we are't even going to get back pay as the other unemployed got so again we lose out. by the time this gets to be discussed there will be thousands more that will have maxed out and there will be even more 99ers by then. our country is in trouble and the government will not be there to help us.
ReplyDeleteWas this a joke that the drunk woman must be a 99er? The woman could be on welfare, she could be disabled, she could be working and just not working at that moment, or she could be an actress and this is a stunt. Why would anyone assume she is a 99er.
ReplyDeleteLet's start by passing this bill. Then creating tariffs against imports. Then throw out the illegals. Now we have jobs.
ReplyDeleteso true John
ReplyDeletePass that FN Bill before I loose my FN mind.
ReplyDeleteIf I do loose it. Somthing bad might happen.
And it won't be my fault cause I'm off my meds
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Dave Bradley I know you will probably not read this but seriously, you are a dumbass and probably will soon be unemployed yourself,to be making STUPID comments like that. Go Tier V!
ReplyDeletePeople can't even afford ckn mcfuggin nuggets that are on unemployment.....we have been striped of our money or dignity and our jobs we can bearly pay the fuggin bills!
ReplyDeleteDave Bradley, you have to be the all time dumass of the world!!I have read some really stupid posts but yours is the all time worst. You probably are living off someone elses income and never worked a sorry ass day in your life because you are not bright enough to be hired!
ReplyDeleteIntelegent people lost their jobs and careers through no fault of their own. How do you tell your children you can't feed them, or take them to the movies, or buy them school clothes or they might not have a roof over their heads tomorrow?
WHERE'S THE OUTCRY FOR THOSE IN STATES UNDER 7.5%?? WE NEED THIS TOO...HELP!!
ReplyDeletethis is soooo f'ed up-look,i'm 60 years old-no job-no money-i'm going thru my savings like water-I NEED HELP-they need to call back these SOB's from their friggin vacation.who the hell is going to hire me-you cant even get an interview-what do we need to do-hold up banks & gas stations-
ReplyDeletei cant wait until november. goodbye all incumbents, especially repuklicants
ReplyDeleteI am living off equity in the house now. Almost have a PhD in Education since I left dead real estate biz in 2005. This is the first time in 41 years I cannot afford tags or auto insurance. Anything financial is wiped out, thank god for majic jack and cheap internet that one must have for job searching. If I get a job elsewhere who will pay my relo costs? I had a 699 fico March 2008 when I was a masters degreed teacher. That teacher money that came out recently will not help me and others. Politics treats the first born in this financial hell as fodder. Government be damned if I go to another war for them. All this was planned, think about that and the who of it all?
ReplyDeleteWe need JOBS....build rails and roads,,,,government people do not know work equals a real product and they all still work and communicate to me like just go out and get a small job. That my friends, it is the biggest line of crap I have heard from the ignorant and bliss in years.
You cannot dump all this on Bush. We need work deals like the 30s....People are more common sense dumb than they were in the 1950s...how did we get a president that we do not even know where he was born?
I may have to join a cause of value...I have not been this poor since 1962. I was 10 then.
To the few replies that think it's disgraceful for people to mention crime as an alternative, what do you think is going to happen when a man with a family has no alternative in feeding his family? I don't have a family to support, but I can say for certain I would break personal morals and principles to keep the people I care about safe and fed.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sick of this government! We put the bastards in power, then they treat us like subhuman slaves: work your ass off to pay the taxes they deem fit, and only throw you a scrap when you're starving. This country is in dire need of a revolution to change the power paradigm that we have allowed. The government is supposed to be representatives of the people, instead we have allowed them to rule us. We need a collective awakening!
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ReplyDeleteCONGRADULATIONS!!! THE TIER V IS GOING TO PASS NEXT MONTH....I PROMISE!!!
ReplyDeleteHELLO TO ALL MY FELLOW 99ERS........
THE PROBLEM WE WERE HAVING WAS THAT WE WERE SCREAMING AND YELLING BUT THE ONLY THING BEING HEARD WAS ---“PLEASE MOVE THE DEADLINES FOR THE ONES BEHIND US TO BE ABLE TO BECOME 99ERS!!””” AND WE DID NOT EXACTLY SPECIFY THE FACT THAT IT IS US 99ERS THAT NEED THE HELP!!! ….AND WE FORGOT TO TELL CONGRESS THAT 99% OF THE 99ERS ARE THE SOMEWHAT HIGH PAID PROFFESIONAL PEOPLE THAT WERE FIRST TO BE LAID OFF AND ARE TOO --OVER -QUALIFIED-- TO BE ACCEPTED INTO ‘ENTRY LEVEL’ POSITIONS UNLESS WE COMPLETELY LIE ON ARE RESUME; WITH 99% PERCENT FALSE CLAIMS!....
ALL EMPLOYERS KNOW THAT WE WILL LEAVE THEM JUST AS SOON AS THE ECONOMY STRENGHTHENS ...THEY KNOW WE ARE NOT ENTRY LEVEL MATERIAL!!!......
THANKS TO ME CONGRESS FINALY UNDERSTANDS THIS!!! AND THEY KNOW THAT US PROFFESSIONALS ARE DRIVING THE BOAT IN DETERMINING THIS NATIONS FUTURE ESPECIALLY IN REGARDS TO ‘ECONOMIC ‘DEVELOPMENT!!!!..........
THANKS ALL YOU AWEWSOME 99ER‘S AND KEEP UP THE RALLY'S THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT GETTING ALL THE ATTENSION FROM THE MEDIA AND IS WHAT WE NEED FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKS TO ASSURE THAT WE ARE HEARD ‘LOUD’ AND CLEAR!!!!!
THANKS AGAIN!
BIG BAD BUGSY!